Soviet Union: Getting Everyone on the Wagon

A Soviet woman who is freezing in her new apartment discovers that
shreds from a quilted workman's jacket and some cigarette butts have
been stuffed into the walls instead of insulation. A laborer falls from
scaffolding because someone has, in exchange for a bottle of vodka,
sold the wooden planks that he should be standing on and replaced them
with rotting boards. A drunkard who is supposed to be demoted for
causing an uproar in the factory holds on to his job because the boss
fears he might walk out and leave the...